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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. June 3. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3deadline Extension on addresses gives businesses Chance to come on Board by Crystal Laureano staff writer Schwet Zingen Germany army and air Force postal officials in Europe see the recent deadline Extension for the new address format As providing More time for commercial organizations in the United states to make changes in their mailing systems. A we Hope that More commercial mailers will come on Board and update their software to accommodate the four line address a said maj. Bruce Kinser of the 7025th air postal so at Ramstein a. The 7025th formally requested an Extension of the july 15, 1992, deadline because so much incoming mail was not addressed properly. The . Postal service announced last week that the deadline was extended until feb. 15, 1993. A recent Survey of inbound mail at several army Post offices in Europe determined that about 76 percent of the letters included the four line address format said Barbara Lutz of the army postal group Europe that Survey did not include packages Cata logs or magazines. Postal officials were also concerned about Apo number changes that were made under the zip code realignment program in Europe Lutz said. A about 35 percent of the Apo numbers changed a she said. A if we had converted to the system july 15, any mail with the incorrect zip code would be returned to sender after that  the Extension gives overseas mail patrons time to Send out More change of address cards. Lutz said. Postage paid change of address cards Are still available. Many major organizations in the United states have changed their computerized mail and address systems or have programmed such changes. But Many military postal patrons continue to complain about companies Papol Ned to know that i in Stin going on with this. It they hmm emblems Ivi med to know so to list a can try Tomp a Barbara Lutz army postal group Europe that have not complied with the format change Lutz said. A a we re still receiving a few complaints a week. Most of them now Are Small companies that Don t do a lot of business with the military and simply Haven to been made aware of the  most major mailers have changed to a four line format and use a a aet instead of �?on.y.,�?� she said. Visa Mastercard american express scars Roebuck and co. And . Penny co. Inc. Arc among them. A common source of complaints has been the army and air Force Exchange services mail order distribution Center in Dallas. The problem of the distribution centers non compliance was a combination of order forms that would not accommodate the four line address and a computerized mailing system that would not accept the changes said it. Cot. Joe Cato a spokesman for cafes in Europe. A a new Catalon with new order forms will be distributed in late  Cato said adding that computer mailing software will be updated too. Tie current Catalon and order forms will be valid Only for about one month after the new Cata logs Are made available. A by september or october the problems should disappear a he said. Officials urge military Post office patrons to report any instances of organizations that ignore requests to change the address format or use a a aet through local mail officials. In a related matter an Mesa official on monday clarified a suggestion made last week that mail patrons revert to a three line address a dropping the organization name a if a Mailer refuses to comply with the four line format. A the four line address that has been emphasized by the services using the organization name line is useful a said maj. Mark Rader Mesa spokesman. A the intention was to suggest a Way if it can to be solved any other Way of getting their mail addressed. Its sort of a last resort a he  at haitian schools result in 4 arrests port a Prince Haiti a police arrested four students monday As anti government demonstrations resumed in Public High schools in the capital. The . Coast guard meanwhile had to forcibly remove some refugees from a coast guard Cutter that had returned the haitians to port a Prince. Schools reopened monday after being closed last week because of protests demanding the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide the elected president who was toppled in a bloody military coup last september. Three girls were arrested at one school where plainclothes police with sub machine guns scaled the Wall and jumped into the courtyard. A boy carrying a photograph of Aristide was arrested by a plainclothes policeman who entered the courtyard of a second school. The coast guard Public affairs office in Miami said the Cutter thetis picked up 97 haitians on a 35-foot boat monday the first to be plucked from the sea in june. The coast guard has intercepted 37,000 haitian refugees from 487 boats since oct. 29, More than 12,500 of them in May. At the port a Prince Harbor monday four . Human rights activists carrying placards accusing president Bush or racism and prejudice tried to Block the Gangway of the coast guard Cutter decisive As the Cutter unloaded haitian boat people. Some of the refugees had to be forcibly carried off the Cutter. Members of the l a. Coast guard carry a haitian refugee off the Cutter decisive on monday in  student Thomas liked porn films Book says by Stephanie Saul new Day Washington a supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas frequented a hard Core pornography theater while attending Yale Law school in the Early 1970s, making weekly trips to a seedy new Haven conn., neighbourhood where a double a triple x and Quadruplex films were shown a new Book on Thomas and his confirmation hearings says. The Book Capitol games co authored by new Day supreme court correspondent Timothy m. Phelps and Washington journalist and author Helen Winternitz was released this week. The Book also says two Washington video store own ers indicated to journalists that they had rented porno graphic movies to Thomas in recent years. The Book quotes Thomas former classmate Boston lawyer Henry Terry As saying a Clarence Thomas was a habitat or of Pom films. Clarence used to talk about going to see these  Terry said Thomas was not at All shy about making visits to the theater that showed hard Core porn rather than the More artful erotic movies popular with some students. Another fellow Law student at Yale Lovida Coleman remembered that Thomas regaled his friends with details of some porn films he had seen specifically recalling his joking about the then popular pornographic fantasy behind the Green door. A a he could make us All laugh hysterically a Coleman is quoted As saying in the Book. A supreme court spokeswoman said monday that Thomas would have no comment on disclosures in the Book which also describes How Thomas democratic opponents on the Senate judiciary committee made mistakes that helped Lead to his confirmation. University of Oklahoma Law professor Anita f. Hill a former aide to Thomas during his tenure As director of the equal employment Opportunity commission said during testimony before the Senate judiciary committee that Thomas referred repeatedly to pornographic videos in her presence. She also alleged that Thomas made vulgar sexual overtures toward her. Thomas during the hearings vehemently denied this and called the proceedings a a High tech   
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